Trump threatens to pull $1 bln investment if he is banned from UK
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WASHINGTON, JANUARY 7
As President Barack Obama makes an aggressive push to curb gun violence, Donald Trump said he disagrees with the president on his gun control measures, but his tears were real.
“I think he probably means well,” the frontrunner Republican presidential candidate said on Fox News Wednesday when asked about an emotional Obama tearing up as he talked about the first graders massacred at a Sandy Hook elementary school in 2012.
Obama Tuesday announced new executive actions on guns, including narrowing the so-called “gun-show loophole” on background checks.
What the president gets wrong is “the concept” behind his efforts, not his emotion, said Trump reiterating his position that the answer to mass shootings is having more people with guns in the room, not fewer.
“I actually think he was sincere, I’ll probably go down about 5 points in the polls by saying that, but I think he was sincere,” Trump said.
Looking ahead to the presidential race, Trump also attacked other Democrats and front-runnner Hillary Clinton alongside Obama.
“His idea is just taking chunks and chunks out of the Second Amendment (right to bear arms) until we don’t have a Second Amendment anymore, and people need protection,” Trump said.
“Hillary Clinton is, I think, worse than Obama on the issue, frankly, she wants to take everyone’s gun away.”
Later Wednesday, Trump told CNN that Obama should take action to protect Americans, but through legislation, not executive action.
“We have to protect the Second Amendment,” Trump told CNN. “We have no choice. We have to do that.”
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has threatened to cancel over 700 million pounds ($1 billion) of planned investments in golf courses in Scotland if Britain slaps him with a travel ban.
The threat from Trump, owner of two golf courses in his mother’s homeland of Scotland, comes as British lawmakers prepare to hold a debate on a petition signed by over half a million people calling for him to be barred from the country after his proposal to stop Muslims entering the United States.
The debate will be held on Jan. 18 but will not be followed by a vote. Only interior minister Theresa May can issue an order banning entry into Britain and Prime Minister David Cameron has said he does not favour barring Trump.
The Trump Organisation said in a statement that a ban would result in him pulling developments worth 500 million pounds at a golf complex in northeastern Scotland, and a 200 million pound revamp at a resort in the country’s southwest.
“Any action to restrict travel would force The Trump Organization to immediately end these and all future investments we are currently contemplating in the United Kingdom,” the group said in a statement.
Trump’s comments on banning Muslims from entering the United States in December prompted international outrage and led to him being stripped of two Scottish honorary positions.
